Chapter 31 Hodge's Glory (1)
Even those who never watch football games will know a little about it. With the fog in London and the blooming British bars everywhere, they have become the symbol of this country. Don't know much more about football hooligans than ordinary people. When he was in China, he would hardly come into contact with a real football hooligan - those who think football hooligans are cool and think they curse and swear a few fists and then follow others to yell "I want his leg" during the game. Obviously, they cannot be considered football hooligans.
What should a real football hooligan look like?
Don En didn't have the heart to consider this boring problem. After spending a pretty good night at Burns' bar, he woke up the next morning and the same problem was still in front of him: five rounds left before the end of the league, and he had to find ways to improve his team's ranking so that he could choose a weaker opponent in the playoffs.
He circled the five match days on the calendar with a red pen to remind himself that this was five final battles.
He was sure that he had made all preparations like the team, winning the remaining four games, and then fully preparing for the upgraded play-offs. After three play-offs, they would become a new team to participate in the next season's Super League. Then he would use his holiday to go back to China, secretly visit his parents, and by the way, learn how the "Tang En" in China is living now.
This is all Tang En's future plans.
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Don't start with a bad start. In a 32nd round of league matches played on April 16, the Forest lost to the third-ranked Sheffield United away. Although they only lost one goal - 0:1, they lost and lost three points, which also made the Forest lose the opportunity to catch up with the Wolves, because they played one game less than the Wolves before and were only two points behind...
Although the game was going on, Don En was furious at the sidelines. But he accepted the failure after the game in the locker room - what if he didn't accept it? He lost all the losses - he played against the third-ranked team away, losing only one goal was considered a good result. Don En convinced himself from another perspective: if his team only won sixth place at the end of the season, he would inevitably have to fight with the third Sheffield United again. Even if this game is to accumulate experience for the next two games, check the opponent.
However, the players did not have the holiday to enjoy. In the locker room, Donn announced the cancellation of the day after the game. Back in Nottingham, the whole team began to train and prepare for the next round of away game against Reading. That was the fourth-ranked team.
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Despite losing, Don't have returned to Nottingham but still received support from fans.
There were many fans around the training ground the next day. In addition to the old faces in groups of three or five, Tang En also saw a group of people: they sang the songs of the Forest Team to inspire the players to train. The voice was loud and attracted Tang En's attention. What made Tang En quite interesting was that these fans spontaneously divided into two distinct groups.
The larger party was obviously a group, they knew each other and had a unified leadership. Tang En found the leader from the crowd without any effort.
He wore a red pullover and a forest team scarf hanging around his neck to prove his identity. The people around him wore clothes of different colors and styles, but these people had one thing in common - there must be a forest team red scarf on his neck.
The sky was originally not beautiful today, and it was drizzling. Tang En thought that there would be fewer fans watching the team's training on the training ground than before, but he did not expect such a group of fanatical supporters. This group of fanatical people quickly attracted the security guards of the Forest Team's Wilford Training Base. They rushed around these people and paid attention to them vigilantly.
This is the first time that Tang En has seen such a scene in nearly half a season since coaching the Forests.
Now even fools can guess who are gathered outside the training base and cheering for the team loudly.
Watching the group of people standing in the rain singing and cheering for the team, Don Eun couldn't connect them with the fighting football hooligans no matter what.
They look no different from any ordinary fan.
It's hard to imagine that such a group of people would be the notorious "football hooligan". Did you make a mistake?
They worked hard to cheer the team on the sidelines, but the players seemed to not appreciate it. Some people looked at them with obvious disgust. Even Mr. Haohao Walker also regarded them as air.
After the training, the players intentionally left from the side away from the barbed wire, and no one went up to meet the fans' signature requirements. The poor fans seemed very disappointed to see the players not wanting to come. No one under Hodge's men planned to sign or something, and they seemed to be simply supporting the team.
The team's reaction was beyond Tang En's expectations. It seemed that he was the only one who was powerful in these guys.
He glanced at the group of people singing and saying goodbye to the team outside the training ground, and he also turned around and left here with the players.
Although he has been in this country for almost half a year, he found that he still knows nothing about many things here. This is really bad.
Chapter completed!